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Join the Friends of Lucy Breckinridge for this special fundraising event.
Step back in time for an authentic historic feast. Enjoy a beautifully curated autumn menu featuring fresh foods from local fields and gardens, inspired by traditional colonial recipes and seasonal crops. Guest speaker: Local historian April Martin, Education Director at Wilderness Road Regional Museum. Live music by Mary Dorss.
This event will allow us to continue our work cleaning veteran headstones at a number of local cemeteries, including Godwin Cemetery, Fincastle, Virginia.
MENU: Broccoli salad, venison stew, creamy herb garlic chicken, roasted root vegetable medley, baked acorn squash with brown sugar, and Southern cornbread. Dessert: honey gingerbread cake with ice cream. Coffee, tea. Enjoy a glass of wine from Barboursville Vineyards (included with meal ticket). MENU SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
EARLY BIRD TICKETS: $49.00/person or $90.00/couple. ON SALE NOW through October 15th
General admission: $55.00/person or $100.00/couple.
ONLY 32 TICKETS WILL BE SOLD FOR THIS EVENT.
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YOUR HOSTS: The Friends of Lucy Breckinridge have a mission and purpose of acquiring historical knowledge and using this knowledge to educate the public; to help our veterans; to provide cleaning services for headstones so our veterans are honored; to participate in services for Civil War ancestors; and lastly, to support the Fincastle Rifles. We are proud members of the Franklin County VA250 Committee.